Color-chart



Patented Nov. 18, 1919.

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APPLICATION FILED JAN. 17. 1919. 1,322,473

ATNT @FiQ ARTHUR SAMUEL ALLEN, OF TARRYTOWN, NEW YORK,- ASSIGNOR T0 MUNSELL COLOR COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

COLOR-CHART.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 18, 1919.

Application filed January 17, 1919. Serial No. 271,695.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR S. ALLEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Tarrytown, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in ColorChart-s, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to charts and the like and has for its particular object the arrangement of samples, specimens or facsimiles in a catalogue to present the same for selection to the best advantage.

I have found my new and improved device especially well adapted to use in conjunction with the system of color notation disclosed in Letters Patent of the United States to Albert H. Munsell, No, 82L,37t, and its use in this combination is herein described and shown. It may be employed, however, to advantage in other techniques in which gradations occur and in which it is desirable to present in a simple manner both collectively and individually a plurality of gradations.

My device consists primarily of a sheet of material, paper preferred, provided with a plurality of marginal cut out portions each of which ut out portions is adapted to carry, in the Munsell system for example, a color of a different value or chroma from that displayed on the other out out portions, but the colors on a given sheet being of the same hue and differing in degrees of value or chroma in orderly progression. It is desirable that these sheets be bound in book form, although not necessary to my invention. A given correlated group of colors may thus be presented on each page of a catalogue, and each color may be presented to the eye inneath that selected for examination and above the remaining marginal cut out portions of that sheet a thin strip of material to form a screen. When used to present colors acccording to the Munsell system, I prefer to make the sheet or page double and provide the second layer with a wing adapted to be inserted as a screen between the cut out portions of the first layer, in order that the screened colors may conform to that of the main part of the sheet or page. This may or may not be important in other arts, andl the feature may be omitted if desired, though it will in all cases prove a convenience. If the number of pages must be limited one double sheet at the back of each group of pages of the same color may be employed instead of double sheets throughout. The most desirable arrangement will depend upon the requirements of the particular subject matter.

In the accompanying drawing in which like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the various figures thereof, Figure 1 is a plan view of a page, provided with the marginal cut out portions; Fig, 2 a perspective of a double sheet showing the wing on the lower leaf; and Fig. 3 shows the wing inserted as a screen. a is the page, 5, 6, 7 and 8 the marginal cut out portions, carrying colors of the same hue but different value; 9, 10, and 11 are the spaces between the cut out portions. Referring to Fig 2, 1i is the second leaf and 15 the marginal wing, adapted to be inserted in the spaces and act as a screen for the out out portions to be excluded from View.

My invention is especially useful to manufacturers of colored papers in displaying specimens of their products in catalogues, and also to printers and publishers in selecting artistic and correct combinations of colors in papers and of inks for use with the same. It is contemplated that in making a practical application of the invention that the paper manufacturer will use specimens of his products, and that each sheet or page a will consist of a specimen of colored paper suitable for the covers or pages of a book, and that upon the cut out portions 5, 6, 7 and 8 of each page will be displayed a given hue in varying degrees of value or chroma which form attractive color combinations with the color of the sheet or page itself. The color of the sheet or page 4, can thus be presented to the eye coincidently with the color upon any of the cut out portions isolated from the others, and each of the cut out portions can be successively and separately presented to the eye with the sheet itself enabling one to avoid confusion and thereby to make critical comparisons of colors, and to select with precision attractive and correct color combinations.

What I claim and desire to secure by Let ters Patent is:

A color chart comprising a sheet of material displaying a, color, said sheet being my hand in presence of: two: suhsribing provlded With marginal out out portions, the Witnesses, this 27th day of December, 1918. out out portions displayingcolors other than that of said sheet, combined" with a Wing ALLEN." 5 adapted to conceal certain out out portions \Vitnesses:

and expose others to View. RAY GREENLEA-F,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set V. M. GREENLEAF. 

